ACORNS grow
May 8, 2011
Folks may have thought that ACORN was out of business after federal funding was cut but not so, as the Judicial Watch group recently reported. According to Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, “today ACORN is alive and well, splintered into rebranded local chapters across the country.” As an example, ACORN affiliates in various states are changing their names in a desperate bid to restore federal grants and other revenue sources.
As an example, in New York, ACORN is New York Communities for Change. In Arkansas, ACORN has become Arkansas Community Organizations; in Missouri, ACORN is Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE). In Rhode Island and Connecticut the organization is now New England United for Justice.
The role of ACORN in North Carolina is a little more clouded but during my research I found that before the last general election, the organization registered more than 27,000 new voters in North Carolina, most of them in Durham and Charlotte.
Local election officials found that during their investigation of ACORN’s registration practices some forms it filed had information that may have been copied from phone books. Durham County’s elections office turned over about 120 suspect forms to the state for investigation and Wake County’s elections office sent in about 30 suspicious forms.
Admittedly this is a small number but it represents what they found and it doesn’t answer the question, how many did they review out of 27,000. With the 2012 election ahead of us it would be naïve to think that voter fraud will not play a role in Obama’s favor. When you consider that his attorney general, Eric Holder, refused to prosecute three members of the New Black Panther Party on charges of voter intimidation in Philadelphia during the last general election, voter fraud is not much of a stretch.
Undoubtedly Obama will ride a new wave of popularity with the killing of bin Laden but the prospect of voter fraud should be kept on the front burner. There is too much at stake in 2012 and our nation can’t afford another four years of this Socialist. The future freedom of our children and grandchildren depends on his defeat, and that starts now.
Louis Call
River Bend, NC
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